Room in the Nest: An inclusive foster care story to explain fostering, reunification, kinship care, adoption, long term foster care and the family … Kinship Care and Special…
£10.40
Winner of the Literary Titan GOLD Award, March 2023.
From the author of award-winning children’s story book, Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother and other adoption and fostering children’s stories, comes a heartwarming story featuring a mixture of familiar and new characters.
Mr and Mrs Swan build a big nest, so that they have plenty of room to help anyone who needs them. Teach children about different kinds of foster care, with this touching tale of fostering placements leading to reunification, kinship care, adoption and long term foster care / fostering-to-adopt. This inclusive story features different types of family, including same-sex and single parents, and can be used as a therapeutic tool to help care-experienced children to process their experiences, or as an effective teaching aid to normalise and explain foster care and other family structures to all children.
Praise for Room in the Nest
“…This magnificent story shows sensitivity to the topic and complicated feelings surrounding foster care. She explains how the Caring Goose always tries to help the parents out first and give them guidance and that she is not trying to rip families apart but instead shows compassion and works to try and keep families together. Still, sometimes that is not always best for the children. Room in the Nest is a heartwarming picture book that teaches children about foster care, foster placements, long-term fostering, kinship care, reunification, adoption, and a broad look at family court. This is a beautiful story to share with children that have to go through this process to help ease their fears and for other children to understand what happens if someone they know goes into foster care. This honest and beautiful look at the system is a much-needed resource for families, teachers, social workers, and anyone working with troubled families.” – Literary Titan
“…Holly has taken a complex and emotionally charged concept and presented it in a way that children will appreciate and understand…” – Readers’ Favorite
“…Room in the Nest” is a great tool to use for life story work to start discussions about foster carers. It’s also a great book for all children to read, to help them understand why some children need to stay with foster carers sometimes for a short period of time, sometimes for much longer.” – We Made A Wish adoption magazine
Praise for Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother
“One of the best adoption books of all time” – BookAuthority
“…a beautifully illustrated children’s story book, explaining big issues like adoption and fostering, in an age appropriate way.” – We Made A Wish adoption magazine
“…Delly Duck is a great choice for adopted and fostered children to explain adoption or support therapeutic life story work. The book can be used to help answer difficult and emotive questions…” – Maggie and Rose Book Adventurers
“A fantastic book for Parents, Foster Parents, Adoptive Parents, Legal Guardians, Kinship Carers, Social Workers, Play Therapists or Teachers… I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is adopting, fostering, or is a child’s Legal Guardian… I love the way the book shows the love, and loss of the birth parent, and highlights the fact that sometimes a birth parent is simply not equipped with the necessary skills to keep their child safe consistently.
This beautiful, sensitively written story explains why a child may need to be removed from their birth parent, and explores in a gentle way the emotions felt by parent and child, and the roles other people play in protecting the child, and offering the child a loving, safe environment…” – Icing on the Bake
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Additional information
| Publisher | Holly Marlow (4 Sept. 2022) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 25 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1739916840 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1739916848 |
| Reading age | 1 – 11 years |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 0.15 x 21.59 cm |
by Alison Townsend
A sweet explanation of how others can help nurture little ones in times of need
by Carol
What a delightful and sensitively written book! The book takes the young reader through the whole process of fostering through to adoption, explaining each step in careful and easy to understand language appropriate for any child of primary school age.
The author has cleverly used different types of families for the adoptive bird parents to normalise those different family set ups for the child reading the book. There is a single parent family and a family with two stork mums, all treated as very normal as of course they should be. The author has also shown that adoptive parents can look similar or very different to their adopted child / bird.
This is a great tool for families to use for discussion around the topic of fostering and adoption. This book would be an excellent teaching resource for any child who has a friendship or family connection with a fostered or adopted child. It is a must for school libraries.
by Amazon Customer
I am a Kinship Carer and I wish that I had been given this book on my first day. Holly Marlow’s books are wonderful and this new one touches on every aspect of the care system (from the point of view of wildfowl). This is a book that I would recommend to all Foster Carers, Kinship, Adoption or just those who want to understand all family dynamics. Kids and adults alike will enjoy this book.
by NS2010
Wonderful book by a very talented author